The catalogs listed below are specific to companies that primarily made lenses. All catalogs may be found here.
For each catalog, two facing pages are shown per image. Catalogs are marked as (complete), meaning all pages were scanned or (the pages scanned). Each image is about 1mb, so downloads can take considerable time for complete catalogs.
1887
Photographic Lenses and How to Select Them, James W.
Queen & Co. (Philadelphia, PA), dated 1887,
~6"x9¼", 40pp
1894
Photographic Lenses, Shutters, Prisms 7th Edition,
Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. (Rochester, NY),
dated June 1894, ~6½"x10", 32pp
c.1895
Price List of Double-Anastigmats,
C. P. Goerz Optical Works (Berlin-Schöneberg, Germany), undated c.
1895, ~6½"x9¾", 20pp
1897
Department 5, Photographic Lenses, Supplies, Etc., Second
Edition, Andrew J. Lloyd & Co. (Boston, MA),
dated 1897, ~7½"x10", 112pp & 16pp supplement
1898
Photographic Objectives, Shutters and Accessories,
Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. (Rochester, NY),
dated 1898, ~6½"x10", 72pp
1903
Price List of
Double-Anastigmat Lenses, Goerz' Anschutz Cameras, Shutters, Etc., Etc.
and Trieder Binoculars (New York, NY,
Berlin, London and Paris), dated 1903, ~6½"x9¾",
100pp & Jan. 1, 1904 half-page notice & 8½"x14" one-sided printed
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1904
Bausch & Lomb Portrait Lenses,
Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. (Rochester, NY), dated 1904,
~6"x9", 24pp (complete)
1906
The Anastigmat Lens as an aid to Artistic Photography,
Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. (Rochester, NY),
dated 1906, ~4½"x5¾", 32pp
c.1906
Catalogue of
Photographic Lenses, The Voightlaender & Son Co. (New
York,
NY), undated c.1906, ~6"x9",
28pp -
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c.1906
Goerz Lenses,
C.P. Goerz American Optical Co. (New York, NY, Chicago, IL and San
Francisco, CA), undated c.1906, ~6"x9",
32pp (complete scan) -
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1907
Photographic Lenses, Catalog H,
Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. (Rochester, NY), dated 1907,
~7¾"x10¾", 54pp
1908
Fireside Photography, Bausch
& Lomb Optical Co. (Rochester, NY), dated 1908, ~6"x9", 32pp
1910
Photographic Lenses, Catalog H,
Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. (Rochester, NY), dated 1910,
~8"x11", 62pp
1910
Goerz Lenses, C. P. Goerz
American Optical Co. (New York, NY), dated 1910, ~6½"x9¼", 64pp
1911
Goerz Lenses, C. P. Goerz
American Optical Co. (New York, NY), dated 1911, ~5½"x8", 56pp
1911
The
Multi-Speed Shutter, Multi-Speed Shutter Co. (New York,
NY), copyright 1911, ~6"x9",
32pp -
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1912
Photographic Lenses, Bausch &
Lomb Optical Co. (Rochester, NY), dated 1912, ~6¼"x10", 64pp
1912
Photography Indoors, Bausch
& Lomb Optical Co. (Rochester, NY), dated 1912, ~4½" x 7", 44pp
1912
Wollensak Lenses & Shutters 1912-1913,
Wollensak Optical Co. (Rochester, NY), dated 1912-1913 (good for two
years), ~5¼"x8¼", 32pp
1914
Photographic
Lenses, Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. (Rochester,
NY), copyright 1914, ~6½"x9¾",
64pp -
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c.1915
Large Photomicrographic
Apparatus, Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. (Rochester,
NY), undated c.1915, ~6½"x9¾",
16pp -
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1916
A Catalogue of Photographic Lenses & Shutters,
Wollensak Optical Co. (Rochester, NY), dated 1916-1917 (good for two
years), ~5½"x8½", 36pp
1920
A Catalogue of Photographic Lenses & Shutters, 1920,
Wollensak Optical Co. (Rochester, NY), copyright 1919, ~5x7¾", 44pp
1920
Photographic
Lenses, Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. (Rochester,
NY), dated 1920, ~6½"x9⅝",
64pp -
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c.1920
Photomicrographic Equipment and Micro Projectors,
Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. (Rochester, NY), undated c. 1912, ~6½"x9¾",
56pp
1922
What Lens Shall I Buy?,
Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. (Rochester, NY), undated but 1922, ~4½"x7¼",
48pp
1922
Wollensak
Lenses and Shutters, Wollensak Optical Co. (Rochester,
NY), dated 1922, ~6"x9",
32pp & 4pp supplement -
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c.1922
Taylor-Hobson Cooke Anastigmats for Fine Photography
Catalogue No. 22, Burke & James, Inc.
(Chicago, IL), undated c. 1922, ~6x9", 36pp
1928
Photographic
Lenses, Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. (Rochester,
NY), dated 1928, ~5¼"x6½",
48pp -
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